Israel Law Against Anorexic Models Goes Into Effect

The Jerusalem Post reports a new law which will ban models with a body mass index below 18.5 from runways and all media. The law goes into effect Tuesday (today) and affects male and female models currently working in Israel. In addition the law also dictates the use of photoshop on models. If you make the model look like she is under a BMI of 18.5 they must state it on the advertisement.

This is the first time we have seen a law passed that will directly influence what people, and most importantly, children see in the media. When PLUS Model Magazine posted our feature “Plus Size Bodies, What Is Wrong With Them Anyway?” – the response was felt world-wide because this is not a problem only in the U.S. but all over the globe.

There are women and men starving themselves in the modeling industry for the sake of fashion. Who is responsible? No-one wants to take the blame and no-one wants to take the responsibility of fixing the issue. We need a law like this passed universally in order to stop this epidemic.

The epidemic of unhealthy people is not about being FAT, it’s about being unhealthy period!

Why do we need laws like this? Here are just a few statistics provided by RaderPrograms.com.

Vogue magazine stated that they chose Gisele Bunchen as their “model of the year” due, in part, to the fact that she deviates from the typical “rail thin” image. In fact, Gisele weighs only 115 lbs. and is 5’11 – 25% below her ideal weight.

At 5’7 and 95 lbs. Kate Moss is 30% below her ideal weight.

Fashion models’ weight averaged only 8% less than the average women 20 years ago. Today the average fashion model weighs 23% less than the average woman.

And if you think the media does not influence people of all ages, think again. It could be happening in your own family or social circles.

– Adolescent girls are more afraid of gaining weight than getting cancer, losing their parents or nuclear war.

What can we do to help make a change?

1) We must ask magazines to stop working with models who are painfully thin and show more diversity (plus size models). Send emails, messages on FB and twitter – if the message comes in from enough people, they will listen!

2) We must take it straight to the designers! Use social media to reach out to designers and fashion stores who use “unhealthy” looking models.

3) MONEY TALKS!!! Stop shopping the brands/designers who do not support your views on this matter. In the end it’s about dollars and the one’s in control are the consumers. Yes, YOU are in control here!!

When women stop letting men who have this STPUID Notion tht a beautiful woman looks like an Anorexic twelve year old little boy(if the y want a boy that old) design their clothing this worse than Stupid idea of skinny being beauty will stop. How women started allowing this IGNORANCE to start is beyond me.Real True men know a woman has curves and are soft not skin and bones only.I grew up in the 60’s and Twiggy was supposed to be the prime example of beauty back then but not to me.Now we have women who are by no means FAt or even big being called Obese or Fat.We even have people who used to be average size being called plus size when anyone with Eyes and brains can see they are in FACT just Average size.The Stupidity of a size Zero being good must stop and real women must stop it by stopping the xdesigners from saying who is a beauty in the one way they can stop buying their clothing until they change what they call women size wise.Men who hate women should not be defining beauty for women it should be done by men who love the female figure.

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